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title: They built a series of defensive walls out of laterite blocks, the l… — Dakar · tree and pragmatics
description: They built a series of defensive walls out of laterite blocks, the longest of which stretched across the entire peninsula from Yoff to Hann, and successfully repulsed the Damel's army. Who acts: armies. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dakar» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dakar, sentence 29

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From Wikipedia, [«Dakar»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakar), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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They built a series of defensive walls out of laterite blocks, the longest of which stretched across the entire peninsula from Yoff to Hann, and successfully repulsed the Damel's army.

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**Who acts:** armies · **What happens:** build, stretch, repulse · **To what, where:** series, laterite blocks, Hann, entire peninsula, army

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Dakar». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (armies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Dakar:29
# text = They built a series of defensive walls out of laterite blocks, the longest of which stretched across the entire peninsula from Yoff to Hann, and successfully repulsed the Damel's army.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	series	series	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	defensive	defensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	laterite	laterite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	blocks	block	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	longest	long	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	appos	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obl	_	_
17	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	parataxis	_	_
18	across	across	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	entire	entire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	peninsula	peninsula	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Yoff	Yoff	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Hann	Hann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	successfully	successfully	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	repulsed	repulse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Damel	Damel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	's	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past | armies *= army* | a series of defensive walls |  | laterite blocks |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset series=Product |
| 2 | **stretch** | participle |  |  | Hann | the entire peninsula from Yoff |  | which *obl* | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of which=Location |
| 3 | **repulse** | participle | armies *= army* *not said here* | the Damel's army |  |  |  | successfully *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus army=Experiencer |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Dakar», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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